Animal feeding device



Sept; 27, 1932. H. w. KULP 1,879,332

ANIMAL FEEDING DEVICE Filed Dec. 26, 1930 Mem.- Hrt'y W KM Patented. Sept. 27, 1932 UNITED :STATES PATENT "oFFvicE-,i j Y HARRY W. KUL?, 0E LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA, AssIGNonor CNE-HALF 'ro MARTIN C.`DELLINGER, or LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA ANIMAL FEEDING DEVICE v t d Application filed December 26, 1930. serial No.`5o4,9'28.

This invention relates to a feeding or watering device for animals from the eutside of the animal pen or enclosure and is particularly intended for use on! fox farms or Y ranches and for similar large farms for cap# tive animals of various kinds. y

Onthesefarms the animals are more or less segregatedin a large number of .smallv pens and on large farms of this nature there are a great number of these small pens, each of which has to be individually supplied4 with food and water for its occupant or occupants. Heretofore it has beeny the usual practice for the attendants to go into the individual enclosuresand leave the food and water in pans on the ground. This requires a great deal of time,lparticularly' where there are a large number of lindividual pensand-is a matter of decided expense and has been aggravated by the fact that animals often car-r ry the pans tothe far corners'of the-pens and frequently upset the pans with resultant large loss of, -food or food values. Furthermore, these pans are usually of light weight aluminum inorder that-a large number may be carried'by a given attendant, and the animals, particularly vo n foxvfarms, play havoc with these aluminum pans.A The foxes have very sharp front teeth and somehow seem to take a delightin gnawing onthe edgesk and bottomv corners of the pans with the result that a large number of the pans are regular: ly gnawed away, and their 'top flanges eaten oli and the top portions torn into and are punctured around their bottom'corners.

My invention has particularly inr mind toV overcome these disadvantages.

` The primary object of my invention is to provide means for supportingthe pan within the enclosure' and permitting iti-to be easily inserted and withdrawn yfrom ,the outside Y of the enclosure and to protect lthe top flange from thepassaults of the foXesteethfand to so present the lower bottom corners that the foxes willnot be able to easily reach withv their teeth," Y' v Further objects are to provide simple means for holding' the pen in arranged position, to providesimp'le, self-acting means for closing the opening `when the pan is-withmoved;

- metal stamping operations.

d In the accompanying drawing g Figure 1 represents a front'elevation of a device embodying my invention 'as mounted on thewire ofan individual pen;

Figure 2 represents atop-planview of the device by itself with a feeding pan therein;

Figure 3, a 4rear plan view of the device by itself, the feeding pan having `been V're-` VFigure'l, av sectional view on the line 4- 4 of Figure 2;l l Q n Figure 5, asectional view on the line 5-7-5 of Figure'). A Y 1` Y Referringl now'in detail tothe drawing, A designates the usual wire'netting employed asl'the sides of the Peniand Bdesignates one i:

of the usual light aluminum feedingpans having the vusual outwardly extending radial top flange.-

The clamping or mounting plates 1 and 2 l i are applied against opposite sides of thewire A, which is disposed between them andsaid plates 'are fastened together by means of cooperating'nuts and bolts 3 passing through registering'perforations in v.said plates and 2. l i l Y The said plates land Q'ha've their medial portions cut outas at el` and 4a, respectively to define an opening corresponding insize and shape'to the cross sectional' size and shape of the pan B, as shown, for instance, in Figure 4, to permit the insertion of the pan B through saidrplates 1 and 2 into v.the pen. To the plate l is secured a generally U-shape channeled member 5 projecting' substantially at right anglesfrom thefface ofplate 1 into the individual pen Vfor a distance nearly equal to'thediameter of the pan B.4 VvSaid member 5 will be of such size and construction 4 asto'receive in its channel the upper or top edge .flangeof the pan vB, and will be preferably of galvanized iron or st'eelvso as toform an effective protection against the animals teeth. Said member V5 maybe attachedporV suitable'manner as b'y'bolts or rivets or byl Vfastened or connected to the plate 1in any gage one of said plates to prevent said fiap from swinging rearwardly through said registering apertures of said plates.

2. A feeding device comprising a pair of apertured plates to be clamped together in registering relation on opposite faces of an intervening wire mesh constituting a1 side of an animal pen, and means for clamping said plates together, in combination with a U- shaped channeled protective metal Vmember having its ends anchored to'one of said plates adjacent the upper ends of the sides of the aperture in said plate with the respective ends of the channel of said member so positioned as to receive the diametrically opposite portions of the flange of a receptacle to guide and protect said flange, a hook pivotally connected to one of said plates and having a portion to hook under the rear portion of said flange when the receptacle has been pushed forward in said channeled member to its extreme forward position, a metal fiap, a hinge connected to said flap and one of said plates, a Vhelical spring disposed about the pintle of said hinge and engaging said plate and said flap and acting to force said flap upward against the bottom of said lpan to support the pan when in position and to force the flap upward into position substantially parallel with said plate to close the aperture therein when the pan is withdrawn. 1

3. A feeding device comprising a pair of apertured plates to be clamped together in registering relationy on opposite faces of an intervening wire mesh constituting a side of an animal pen, and means forV clampingsaid plates together, in combination with a U- shaped channeled protective metal member having its ends anchored to one of said plates` adjacent the upper ends of the sides V'of the aperture in said plate .with the respective ends of the channel of said member so positioned as to receive the diametrically opposite portions of the ange of a rreceptacle to guide and protect said flange, a hook pivotally connected to one of said plates and having a portion to hook under the rear portion of said one of said plates, and a spring engaging said plate and said flap and acting to force said fiap upward. n

5. A feeding device comprising an apertured plate to be mounted on the side of an animal pen, in combination with achanneled protective metal member having its ends anchored to said plate adjacent the upper ends of the sides of the aperture in said plate with the respective ends of the channel of said member so positioned as to receive op-v posite portions of the flange of a receptacle to guide and protect said flange, a metal flap, a hinge connected to said flap and said plate, and a spring engaging said plate and said flap and acting to force said flap upward.

6. A feeding` device comprising an apertured plateto be mounted on the side of an animal pen, in combination with a channeled Vprotective metal member having its ends anchored to said plate adjacent the upperends of the sides of the aperture in said plate with.

the respective ends of the channel of said member so positioned as to receive op- Y posite portions of the flange of a receptacle to guide and protect said flange, and a metal"- i flap hinfredly connected to said plate to close the aperture in said plate.

7. A feeding device comprising an apertured plate to be mounted on the side of an animal pen, in combination with a channeled protective metal member having its ends anchored to 4said plate adjacent the upper ends of the sides lof the aperture in said plate with the respectivev ends of the channel of A'said .member so positioned as to receive opposite portions of the flange of areceptacle to guide and protect said fiange and means to positively engage such receptacle to prevent its displacement froni said member. v

In testimony whereof, I have name to this specification at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, this 20th day of December, 1980.

HARRY W. K-l HJP.

flange whenthe receptacle has been pushed forward in said channeled member to its eX- treme forward position, a metal Hap, means for movably connecting said fiap to one of said plates, and yielding means for pressing neled protective metal member having its ends anchored to one of said plates adjacent the upper ends of the sides of the aperture v in said plate with the respective ends of the channel of said member so positioned as to receive opposite portions of the flange of a reicav Vsigned my y lir y 

